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Meta Verified Is Launching in Australia, Here’s What You’ll Get for $300 a Year
Meta Verified will set you back a monthly fee of $19.99-$24.99, giving you access to something that already exists for free. How Meta.
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A Secretive Israeli Company Says It Manipulated More Than 30 Elections Worldwide
A secretive Israeli cyber company is engineering ongoing influence operations directed at elections all over the world, a consortium of more than 30 news organisations reports. The CEO of the company, a former Israeli special forces agent named Tal Hanan, boasted to undercover journalists that his team of psychological warfare operators had been involved in…
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Google Hopes to Inoculate Internet Users Against Misinformation with Expanded ‘Pre-bunking’ Campaign
Google plans to expand a campaign against online misinformation to Germany this week, and later India, as first reported by the Associated Press. The strategy, known as “pre-bunking” or “attitudinal inoculation,” aims to train people on how to recognise false information and manipulated facts on the internet before they even encounter them.
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Cocaine, Cash, and Coders: Cops Arrest Dozens Who Allegedly Built App for Doing Crimes
Police shut down a shadowy encrypted messaging app Monday that was allegedly used by organised crime figures to facilitate the transfer of drugs, illicit cash, and firearms throughout Europe. Then they nabbed the people who allegedly coded it.